Guitar build #4 - Acoustic

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Clinton — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:41:50 +0000

@bpower top job!

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Bpower — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 22:46:54 +0000

@robin That sounds fantastic. I know my daughter absolutely loves getting involved with the build. She talks about her diamonds all the time. Also.... acoustics are wayyyyyyyy better than electric guitars. Get at er and post some progress pics. Maybe a little quicker than I do. :)

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Robin — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:57:15 +0000

@bpower

That all looks great, I really need to be getting on with my acoustic build, seeing this is helping to spur me on. I like the way you're getting your daughter involved, my daughter gave me a guitarmaking.co.uk gift voucher for my birthday recently, so I'll be renewing my membership and getting back onto the acoustic course.

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Bpower — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 20:08:06 +0000

Next was clean up the glue squeeze out and start making some center seam diamonds. Just like all my other guitars I enlisted the help from my daughter. I love getting her involved. You never know... she may become the next great guitar builder. :)

The ones she fully does has her initial on them... "G"

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Bpower — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 20:00:22 +0000

ok... It seems like this build is taking a long time but I'm enjoying the relaxed pace. Here are a few more progress pics. I didn't like the carve on one of the braces (upper face brace) so I removed it and glued a new one on. I'm much happier about this one. Also went a little off script on the brace carve. I think it should be good. We will find out later.

It is always a bit of a "pucker factor" moment when you have everything the way you want and then chop off a part to make the arm bevel. Looks a little wonky until you glue it onto the sides. Then needed to come up with a way to clamp it down. I think this worked. :)

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Robin — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:16:32 +0000

@bpower

I like the idea of the bottle screws on your jig, I'm going to be copying that idea on mine, I've got some of these in my boat junk box.

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Bpower — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:55:08 +0000

thanks @russ. :)

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Russ — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:52:20 +0000

Nice work @bpower. Lovin' the rosette too.

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Bpower — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:30:36 +0000

thanks @swepri. I did that "random pattern" rosette on my last build too and I am really liking the end result. I think it may become my "thing" on my guitars... or at least some variation o...

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swepri — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 08:12:17 +0000

@bpower Wow, good progress! Nice rosette too.